Recurrent Quotes
30 quotes by 26 authors
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At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit
— Michael Bolton
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But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never…
— Manuel De Landa
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A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of…
— R. H. Tawney
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Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
— Norman Borlaug
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POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only…
— Ambrose Bierce
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This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash,…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases…
— Hans Selye
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The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was…
— Leland Ryken
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all…
— John Drinkwater
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Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert…
— George Steiner
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If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought…
— Harvey Mackay
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.
— Mary McCarthy
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So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the…
— Italo Calvino
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As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes…
— Isabel Allende
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Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Who Wrote These Recurrent Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 30 Recurrent Quotes, led by these top contributors: